Metolius, OR
How exposed is Metolius to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Metolius at the 81st national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 427 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Metolius at the 83rd percentile, close to its 81st-percentile risk score.
Where Metolius's buildings actually sit
Metolius rates 77.8% Minimal exposure against just 15.7% Direct and 6.6% Indirect — of 427 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Metolius compares
Metolius's 81st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 62nd ranking inside Oregon does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 19 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Metolius ranks 5,937 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,718 by building count (1 is largest). Within Oregon alone, it ranks 159 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Oregon on its state page.
Metolius and the insurance market
Metolius sits in Oregon, one of two states that legally require a wildfire-risk disclosure at sale. Sellers here disclose wildfire-hazard status before closing, the same number this page reports at the 81st national percentile. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in Metolius
Metolius's 77.8% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Metolius's 5,937-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Metolius, see the exposure-zones guide.